Example sentences of "if [pers pn] be [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Now if I am a good reporter , in a sense I 'm going to let the original question flow past me as a starter , I may use it , I may not use it .
2 Ivy remarked : ‘ Rose Macaulay asked me if I were a good walker and I said I was .
3 If she is a good woman of business , it is sometimes possible for her to let her rooms advantageously …
4 If she were a good spit and-polish balabosteh like her Aunt Minna , where would I be now ?
5 Melanie and Victoria each had a fat , foil-wrapped tangerine from an aromatic , tissue-padded cardboard box , which was being unpacked when they went in together for potatoes and cooking apples ; and the greengrocer lady , nodding her gold earrings , promised Victoria a solid triangle of muscatel raisins if she was a good girl and if the muscatel raisins did not sell .
6 She 'd never have called me Scarlet if she was a good mother . ’
7 So I said , if you are a good girl you can choose a cake .
8 If you are a good journalist you 're already there ; you should be able to anticipate ahead that there might be an invasion on .
9 And so the next morning Marilla said , ‘ Well , Anne , Matthew and I have decided to keep you , only if you 're a good girl , of course .
10 If you 're a good girl I 'll take you home myself in the morning . ’
11 Incorrect response : ‘ Yes , if you 're a good boy . ’
12 " If you 're a good boy , I 'll give you a kiss . "
13 If you 're a good boy I 'll take you to see the badgers one day .
14 And if you 're a good boy you 're going to Jade 's party .
15 Jade 's party if you 're a good boy .
16 Jadey 's party , if you 're a good boy .
17 Say , if you 're a good boy .
18 So I mean y'know j it may help you get a first class mark if you 're a good candidate by writing lots , but generally writing lots does n't ensure that you get a good mark .
19 They will pass these on to us : ‘ You are exceptionally important ’ , ‘ Other people matter more than you do ’ , ‘ If you 're a good girl/boy I will love you ’ , ‘ I will overpower you if you are naughty . ’
20 But I was the Annie character — you know — if you were a good girl you 'd be rewarded , and it is n't nice to make a fuss . ’
21 A possible source of such a field is an internal lunar dipole source , since vanished , though other possible sources are the Earth 's field and the Sun 's field if they were a good deal stronger in the past than they are today .
22 If it is a good idea , should it not extend to all forms of public services — not just those that the Government decide ?
23 He can relax at the weekends and if it is a good skool Eustace will soon be strong and brainy enuff to bring in the coal ’
24 It will hover , and dependent on wind strength , the lines will be at 85 degrees or so to the ground , the kite stationary nearly overhead if it is a good performer .
25 However , when he is transferred to a strange yard with different handlers , even if it is a good establishment , his natural nervous temperament will reappear , explaining why so many new owners think their horse may have been drugged when they bought it .
26 If it is a good goose , it becomes a nome .
27 One way of finding applicants of a suitable calibre is to use an agency which specializes in the type of employee you are looking for , and which , if it is a good agency , will already have done some preliminary sorting to weed out those who are entirely unsuitable .
28 what they and they if it 's a good course they should actually have some sort of estimate of this
29 If it 's a good day , I feel on top of the world .
30 whatever and maybe if it 's a good correspondence course they may refer you to the actual you know things you should have er read and so on
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